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Whirlwind Wednesday concluded with the 49ers signing a defensive end a veteran quarterback not named Kurt Warner, and the revelation by Warner of a burning-bush moment telling him 45 minutes into Monday’s 49ers courtship to take $7 million less and stay in Arizona. The team was also excoriated by a pair a drive-time radio host for what’s amounted to a bizarre off season.

First, the news, the team apparently agreed to terms on a one-year deal with Damon Huard, the former Chiefs starter, providing the 49ers a veteran presence and filling out their quarterback roster assuming they reached an expected accommodation with the restructure of Alex Smith’s deal. This essentially is a trade out. It appears with this signing, the 49ers get rid of old offensive coordinator Mike Martz’s guy (J.T. O’Sullivan) for new offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye’s guy (Huard).

Demetric Evans is now a Niner.

The addition of former Washington defensive lineman Demetric Evans seems to fall under the same category. The 6-4 284-pound defensive lineman may be an upgrade over Ron Fields, who remains an unsigned free agent. Fields play seemed to diminish over the season, and there’s a priceless clip on NFL Films of Fields getting chewed out by Singletary. Fields just didn’t seem to do much when he was in the game.

Huard has never played for Raye, but it’s hard to imagine Raye wasn’t consulted about him before Huard came to agreement. Huard, 35, has a decent career quarterback rating of 80.6 with 33 touchdowns and 26 interceptions.

The team also gave saftey Mark Roman permission to seek a trade. Roman has been told that Dashon Goldson is the new starting free safety.

Jim Trotter of Sports Illustrated was told by the Warner camp that the 49ers extended a $30 million two-year deal with $20 million guaranteed; the 49ers maintain no formal offer was made. Warner settled for $23 million over two years to stay in Arizona. Of his visit with the 49ers, Warner said, “I just felt God say, ‘You’re supposed to be in Arizona.’”

It’s the second time the Almighty visited a player on a free agent trip in Santa Clara. Before signing with the Packers in 1993, the late Reggie White was told by God during his visit with the 49ers to sign in Green Bay. The Packers, by the way, were offering more money. No word from Scott Linehan if divine intervention told him to take the job with the winless Lions instead of signing with the 49ers as their offensive coordinator.

Also according to Sports Illustrated, the 49ers are apparently more psychological in their approach than religious. In the latest issue, Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford said his meeting with the 49ers included a psychologist who persisted about the impact of the divorce of Stafford’s parents when Stafford was in high school. According to Stafford, the psychologist told him as if it sounded like he had “unfinished business” concerning the divorce. Stafford said no, and then said he felt if he should be wondering how much he was being charged by hour for the psychoanalysis. Stafford compared it to the interviews with teams who asked him to script plays.

Who knows what happened between the 49ers and Stafford in the interview, but KNBR radio host Ralph Barbieri took exception to the team’s handling of Stafford, to last year’s botched replay system, to the lack of clarity about who’s running the operation, to who made the final decision to fire Mike Nolan to the organization’s cult-like televised state of the team address by Mike Singletary, Scot McCloughan and Jed York to the failed Warner courtship.

What matters of course, is how the team responds come September. Will the moves they are making now payoff? Will they draft well? Can they improve enough to actually get on the plus side of the win-loss ledger? If they can, few will remember Kurt Warner’s chat with God, Stafford’s psychoanalysis, or the “state of the team” presentation. But should the 49ers slog through another season of futility, the above will likely be brought up as evidence that the 49ers remain a team adrift.